Quotes by Anthony Hopkins, page 2

Anthony Hopkins - welsh Actor

Also called: Philip Anthony Hopkins.

Was born on 31 dec 1937.

Origin country: United Kingdom

I mean, I'm not going to do any more Lecter. I've done three of them, and that's enough.

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I never make conscious decisions.

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I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about music

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about film, actors

I think it takes a while to learn to be relaxed and mellow, I guess. I think that's what happens once you get older. It's easier to work with people, and people find it easier to work with you.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about attitude, work, people, contentment

I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about people

I was simply as a kid not inclined to dance. That was for the girls.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about dance

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about film

I worked with Steven Spielberg on Amistad... he seemed so very secure in himself that he let me do things.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about film, things

I would like to go back to Wales. I'm obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about childhood, dream

I'm always cast in these strange men... that's not me, really.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about humor, man

I'm at the roulette table and my luck seems to be running at the moment. I might as well stay there until it runs out.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about good luck, bad luck, moment

I'm composing and writing music, and I've got a concert in San Antonio in May.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about music, writing

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about film, contentment

I'm the slowest driver in the world.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about truth, world

I've got a great sense of humor.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about humor, common sense, sense

I've got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I've done it.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about film, need

It was a challenge, to work with Oliver Stone.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about film, work

Its like, I don't understand anything about sports. I have no interest. I mean, I like boxing, but I could no more go to a horse race... I feel ridiculous doing it.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about sport, interest

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

AQuote by Anthony Hopkins about parents, man